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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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KING, EDMUND C., Physician; residence, Payson; was born in Nicholas county, Ky., Jan. 22, 1854, but was brought up in Bourbon county. He is the younger of two children of Rev. Clark and Margaret F. (Martin) King, the latter having died when he was quite a small child. Rev. Clark King was born in New York State; fitted himself for the ministry, and is still laboring in that capacity in the interest of the Baptist church in Indiana. Margaret Martin was born in Kentucky; thus combining the blood of the Empire State with that of the sunny South in the doctor’s veins. He was educated in the Kentucky Wesleyan University, and read medicine with Dr. S. W. Hurst, of Millersburg. He attended one course of lectures in the medical department of the University of Louisville, after which, he attended and graduated from Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, in 1876. He first located in Quincy, Adams county, where he practiced nearly two years, after which, he came to Payson, where he has practiced less than a year. He is a growing man in the profession.
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This family biography is one of 1444 biographies included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. View the complete description here: The History of Adams County, Illinois
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